Utah LLC formation — $1,200, state fee included

You can file a certificate online and get a stamp back the same day. That stamp means the name exists. It does not say who owns what, who decides, or what happens when someone wants out.

Those rules live in the operating agreement. If you skip it, Utah’s default rules fill the silence. The defaults are fine for a textbook. They are a poor fit for two friends, a spouse, or a trust.

A straightforward LLC is $1,200, including the state filing fee. That is the same number on the pricing page and on the business law page.

The work is the articles of organization filing, the operating agreement, EIN registration assistance, registered agent setup, and member certificates. The state formation filing fee is included.

Straightforward means a new company with a clear owner list and one operating agreement. If you need a professional entity, a foreign registration, or a custom split that isn’t a normal membership, I’ll say so and quote that work separately. I won’t quietly stretch the $1,200.

I’m licensed in those three states. A straightforward LLC in any of them starts at that same published price, and that state’s filing fee is included.

The forms are not copies of each other. Arizona and Texas ask different questions, and the company still needs an operating agreement that matches the state you actually formed it in.

If the company will do business in a state where it was not formed, that is a registration, not a second formation. I wrote that up on the multi-state page.

You get the filed certificate, the operating agreement, help getting the EIN, registered agent setup for the filing, and member certificates.

Then the company has to act like a company. Separate bank account. Contracts in the company name. The house and the membership interest should not be a tangle. If the trust is going to own the interest, the agreement has to allow it. That is ordinary work, and it is why I do estate plans and company documents in the same office.

Using a free template that never mentions death, divorce, or a member who stops working.

Putting the company in your personal name on the lease, then wondering why the filing didn’t change anything.

Assuming the filing, by itself, keeps your house safe. It doesn’t. The liability myth is the longer version. Read it, then let’s write the agreement you will actually use.